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  "t2-14-006"
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   "ds": "accept",
   "mverify": "accept",
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 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T13:01:21+00:00",
 "verdict_note": "ADJ [name withheld], Patiala convicted 6 Punjab Police officials (Nov 18 2005); DSP and [name withheld] got life for an Amritsar man's murder; upheld to SC (2011).",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Amritsar",
 "court": "Court of Additional District and Sessions Judge, Patiala",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Additional District / Sessions Judge, Patiala (Judge Bhupinder Singh; CBI case)",
 "case_title": "CBI v. Punjab Police Deputy Superintendent of Police",
 "case_number": null,
 "conviction_date": "2005-11-18",
 "conviction_year": 2005,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1995-09-06",
 "incident_year": 1995,
 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "enforced_disappearance",
 "raw_subcategory": "enforced_disappearance",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police",
   "unit": "Punjab Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Punjab Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "not stated (Punjab Police official)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "not stated (Punjab Police official), Punjab Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "not stated (Punjab Police official)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "not stated (Punjab Police official), Punjab Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "not stated (Punjab Police official)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "not stated (Punjab Police official), Punjab Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "not stated (Punjab Police official)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "not stated (Punjab Police official), Punjab Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  },
  {
   "rank": "not stated (Punjab Police official)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "not stated (Punjab Police official), Punjab Police",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Amritsar man"
  }
 ],
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302 (murder)",
  "IPC 364 (abduction with intent to murder - source's words; drop /365 hedge)",
  "IPC 201 (destruction of evidence)",
  "IPC 120-B (criminal conspiracy)"
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 "sentence": "[name withheld] and [name withheld]: life imprisonment for murder plus 7 years (abduction), 2 years (destruction of evidence), 5 years (conspiracy); [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld] and [name withheld]: 7 years (abduction) plus 5 years (conspiracy)",
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/originals/news/diljit-dosanjh-satluj-controversy-who-is-jaswant-singh-khalra-zee5-ott-movie-ban-138384394.html",
 "source_kind": "news",
 "source_agency": null,
 "primary_source_url": "https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/jaskaran/2005/11/18/punjab-cops-convicted-of-1995-murder-of-activist-khalra-kps-gill-re/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaswant_Singh_Khalra",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/342168/",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/docfragment/342168/?formInput=ipc+201++++++doctypes%3A+supremecourt+tag%3A+murder%2Ccommon-intention%2Ckidnapping-abducting-for-murder",
  "https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/originals/news/diljit-dosanjh-satluj-controversy-who-is-jaswant-singh-khalra-zee5-ott-movie-ban-138384394.html"
 ],
 "summary": "Additional District Judge [name withheld], Patiala, on 18 November 2005 convicted six Punjab Police officials in the CBI-prosecuted abduction and murder of human rights activist [name withheld], who was picked up outside his Amritsar home on 6 September 1995, tortured in illegal custody and killed in late October 1995 with his body dumped in the Harike canal. DSP and [name withheld] received life terms for murder with additional terms for abduction, destruction of evidence and conspiracy; four others received seven-year terms for abduction and five for conspiracy. Two senior accused (SSP, DSP) died during trial. Appeal posture not verified from opened sources (reported upheld by P&H HC 2007 and SC 2011 — for T2-20 to confirm).",
 "court_quote": "On Friday, November 18, 2005, Additional District Judge [name withheld] in Patiala convicted six Punjab police officials in the 1995 abduction and murder case of human rights activist an Amritsar man",
 "confidence": "high",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2-07+t2-14",
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 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "enforced disappearance",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "followup_status": "checked",
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   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass",
   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published row against the official source (reverify/t2-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "t2-07-008=holds, t2-14-006=wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
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    "sentence"
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  }
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 "case_title_or_number": "CBI v. Punjab Police Deputy Superintendent of Police and others",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}